I can’t believe it has been over 2 weeks since Kate or I have posted on the blog. We are pretty busy, but had seemed to find the time to do it in the past. Let’s see if I can recap the last couple of weeks. Well almost two weeks ago it was my birthday.

Today was pretty sweet even though my neck, arms and shoulders are probably going to be sore tomorrow from looking up at the ceiling and scraping for 3 hours. In that time span I got the master bedroom and the baby’s room scraped so that there is no more popcorn left in them (except the

I was too lazy to write on Sunday. Sunday was interesting. Ron and I finished pulling out the particle board in the kitchen only to find what looked like some pretty bad water damage behind the dish washer. The inspectors checked the sub floor (which is under the particle board) and that was perfect (yay!).

Tonight wasn’t the best night for remodeling. A few issues stood in my way: I got busy after work and started late My plan changed because the asbestos test results are not in yet I wasn’t really prepared for removing linoleum Removing the linoleum required hammering and is very time consuming. Since I didn’t get

Today was the first day of the remodel. After work, I went to Kate’s parent’s house and borrowed some tools. Then immediately went over to the new place and get started. First, I like to open all the windows, because cat urine remnants are still hanging around. It is also nice to get some cool

So yesterday we got the keys to our new home, horay!!!!!!! We’re so excited to get to work on it, fix it up a little and move in. Adam is heading straight over from work tonight to rip out the remaining carpet and padding and shellac the sub floor. Then over the next week or

We might be signing papers for the house next week and closing next Sunday! Horay! It’d be awesome if we get to, because they we’ll have more time to paint and replace the flooring before we need to move out of our rental. I’m not sure when we’re actually going to move. We’ll need to

The inspection on the house went great! There were no pest or dry rot issues at all. There were a few tiny things, like the dirt needing to be swept away from the bottom of the house so it’s 6 inches below the siding, and one toilet needing a new wax ring, but nothing major.